The Case for Cows (Part Two)

The second half of my Liberty Food Fest presentation.

[Below is the second installment of my prepared remarks for Day Two of the Liberty Food Fest in Bellows Falls, which, of course, bears little relation to what I actually said. Language caution for the audio — I used some iffy language as retort to a previous speaker who used the term….]

How We Fight Back!

Ethanol production is a scam. It destroys the soil while enriching a handful or “stakeholders.” It is likely not even a net savings of energy, let alone carbon dioxide.

Cash to Clunkers was a scam. The goal was to subsidize new car sales, which it did — at the expense of its stated environmental goals.

Synthetic meat, solar panels, EVs, windmills – all environmental scams. The first thing to do is stop these scams — simply analyzing the full externalized pollution costs of these technologies exposes that they are highly ecotoxic, regardless of whether they reduce carbon dioxide (which they don’t).

(Putting some of my cows on stage at the Liberty Food Fest.)

We fight back by reversing what we have done wrong – and that’s a lot.

1. Repeal subsidies for large farms (gradually), and pare back regulations for small ones.

2. Enact the PRIME Act.

3. Put farmers instead of technocrats and profiteers in charge.

4. Grow a garden; buy local.

5. Read your labels.

6. Don’t be overwhelmed.

7. Get educated.

8. Practice analyzing externalized costs.

9. The MAHA opportunity – food focus, PFAS.

10. Buy a cow. Support cows. Speak truth to power about cows!

Multinational corporations seek to replace grass blades with solar panels, wood stoves with grid dependency, meat with lab-cultured fabrications, and cows with bugs, synthetic fertilizers, and GMO crops. All of these things increase dependency, consolidate profits and market share for multinational chemical and food corporations, sicken us and our children, and pollute the planet more than they save it. Look out the cowgate, my fellow bovines – you are being herded into enslavement and utter subjugation, and it all hinges on cows and local food.

Consider the four paths by which gentle bovines are currently being targeted:

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1. Cows are Hurting the Climate? Greenhouse gases versus manure and grazing — cows on grass sequester far more carbon than they emit and break down atmospheric methane as well as industrial toxins. Their manure is essential to soil health and crop productivity — synthetic fertilizers are made from natural gas (methane) and do not build soils or sequester carbon — why would we replace animals with chemicals? No carbon is sequestered by synthetic meats or solar panels.

2. Health. A Plant-based diet is supposedly healthier. This is just not true, especially if processed GMO plants full of pesticides and herbicides are the proposed replacement — which they are. As to meats, it depends on which meats as well – highly processed meats are unhealthy; grass fed, organic meats are probably the healthiest thing a human can eat. But globalists claim we must eradicate all meat from our diets to save millions of lives on a vegan diet. What, are eggs and butter bad again? Parkay, Chiffon. Cigarettes are healthy, right? That’s what the advertisers used to say: now they do the same with their toxic faux foods. Now cows, and all meat, are bad for our health? It’s a huge lie!

3. Animal Rights. We must slay all the cows to save them from suffering. Such people are blind to what real agriculture is. See the pictures of my cows? This isn’t an industrial activity – how have animal rights fantasists been so completely deceived and deluded into wanting to slay the animals they claim they care so much about? Ignorance and alienation from their food supply – that’s how. No people in history have been this oblivious.

4. Bird flu in cows? Raw milk is bad?

Note the close parallels between the justifications to ban cows and moral rationalizations to inflict “world-saving” genocide. (This was the rationale behind the 1974 Kissinger Report and is woven throughout today’s UN, WHO, and WEF policies.) Abortion advocates say we save children by slaying them – pro-life, or pro-choice, it is an obscene argument. If we are to paternalistically save babies from a world of suffering by aborting them, and cows and pigs by preventing their existence and opportunity to live at all, how short a moral step we have embraced to exterminate humans like animals that need to be spared from suffering – or even to slay humans to protect biodiversity, wildlife, and other creatures (“One Health”). My point here is that all of the arguments against cows are 1) specious and 2) can be transferred onto us. The Gateses and Zuckerburgs will be safely squirreled away in their bunkers, counting their material wealth and planning to repopulate the planet with their precious superhuman semen, once they are done “saving the world”… from the human scourge.

Or maybe we will just do that by accident. Remember eugenics, and lobotomies? Were they well-intentioned or devious, and does it matter in the end? That is my point here – humanity is being led down a road of destruction through industrial dependency, and it lends itself to abuse by bad actors. But even well-intentioned, like Mao and Pol Pot, it ends in an unprecedented disaster without nefarious motives.

Cows are the solution, not the problem. To the extent they are a problem, it is because of human mismanagement (CAFOs), not nature’s. Let us embrace common sense as we go forward. The home of that common sense is right here in these Green Mountains. It is in the soil, the people and communities that retain some memory of what farming is. We must heal the land and begin an exodus out of urban and suburban dystopia and back to fresh air and water, and properly microbed soils. Your microbiome is pivotal, and it is under relentless attack. We did not get here overnight, and so we will not liberate ourselves from this dependency overnight. But it begins with individuals, and if it does not soon begin, it will soon end very badly – and the government, universities, and corporations that inflicted this ruinous dependency will be nowhere on the horizon to rescue us when it unravels. They will fiddle with their profit margins and woke playbook like Nero fiddled, while our Rome burns.

A biblical perspective.

(I originally fashioned this idea for a talk at Polyface Farm, in 2023). Regardless of whether one is a Christian, the message of the Bible is a fascinating description that literally describes our modern human condition: we were commanded by God to farm; we chose to create fuel-dependent technological idols to do that work instead; when they fail (or cheap energy or the currency fails), we will witness mass famine as never seen in human history!:

Farm Hard or Starve

Genesis 3:17: Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.

18. Both thorns and thistles it shall [q]bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”

Modern Technological Idols

Isaiah 2:8: Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.

The End Times Famine

Rev 6:5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (This is a prediction of food prive inflation during times of scarcity.)

Now, if Nostradamus had written these same words we’d probably hear about it all day long. It amuses me that people argue over the “fundamentalist” or “literalist” view of the bible when I read these scriptures, because whatever one thinks of theology or Christianity (technically Judeo-Christianity, for the first two of these scriptures are OT), what I have just outlined here is literally coming to pass before our very eyes.

Whether by God or the natural order, mankind has always been humbly tied to the Earth and its soil we have no “free choice” to survive otherwise. Through technological hubris reminiscent of Icarus flying to the sun, we find ourselves born into a predicament of great peril. The greatest peril of human history, ironically tied to something as simple and vital as food, leading to unprecedented famine and suffering far beyond what any biblical scriptures could adequately describe. So I’m not asking you to embrace the whole bible as I do, but to embrace those three literal, visible, inescapable truths – we are dependent on the soil; we have tried to cheat or replace that dependency with oil-powered technologies; when our technological wings, or funny money, or energy extraction system fails, we all die, potentially by the billions. Is that the plan? The globalist plan? God’s pan? Unplanned? I’m here to inform and teach people so that they will plan, and embrace that garden of Genesis as sole shelter from the famine of Revelation. I am speaking of the bible then both literally and figuratively. The industrial agricultural and food processing system and our growing peril by virtue of our dependence thereon are a literal catastrophe hanging over our oblivious cow-like heads.

The cow gate is open for those humans who heed the industrial signs of the times. Rush out the gate and grow a garden, get informed, and pressure your state and federal legislators to repeal regulations and subsidies that push out small, local farms in favor of industrial “agriculture”. Recruit more people to flee the human CAFO. We need allies – no man is an island. We need a community to weather such a storm, and it doesn’t have the luxury of quibbling over race, gender, age, wealth, or which personality you voted for. It has to do with being human.

Individually, and as a society, we must Farm Hard or Starve. It’s that simple.